Speed


Gender:
Origin: English
53 famous people named Speed found on Wikipedia.
19 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 3184-th in year 1921
Best ranking: 1144-th in year 1890

Meanings

Old English spedan (intransitive) "to succeed, prosper, grow rich, advance," from the stem of speed (n.). Compare Old Saxon spodian, Middle Dutch spoeden "hasten," Old High German spuoton "to succeed, prosper," German sputen "make haste, hurry." Meaning "to go hastily from place to place, move rapidly" is attested from c. 1200. Transitive meaning "cause to advance toward success" is from mid-13c.; that of "send forth with quickness, give a high speed to" is first recorded 1560s; that of "to increase the work rate of" (usually with up) is from 1856. Meaning "drive an automobile too fast" is from 1908. Related: Speeded; sped; speeding.

Success, good fortune, swiftness.

Famous People: 53 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Gary Speed 1969 Welsh footballer and manager
2 Speed Weed
3 Speed Fictional character and member of the Young Avengers
4 Lucy Speed 1976 British actress
5 Scott Speed 1983 American racing driver; former Formula One racer
6 Joshua Fry Speed 1814 Close friend of Abraham Lincoln from his days in Springfield, Illinois, where Speed was a partner in a general store
7 Doris Speed 1899 English actress
8 Lake Speed 1948 American stock car racing driver
9 James Speed 1812 American politician
10 Carol Speed 1945 Actress
11 Charley Speed 1979 British model
12 Nick Speed 1980 American record producer
13 Ronski Speed 2000 German DJ
14 Speed Saunders
15 DJ Reid Speed American musician
16 Malcolm Speed 1948 Australian cricket administrator
17 Terry Speed 1943 Australian academic and Professor of Statistics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
18 Chris Speed 1967 American musician
19 Keith Speed 1934 British politician
20 Lancelot Speed 1860 British illustrator
21 Harold Speed 1872 English oil and watercolour painter
22 Grant Speed 1930 American western sculptor
23 Speed S. Fry 1817 Union Army general
24 James Breckenridge Speed 1844 Entrepreneur and philanthropist
25 Benjamin Speed 1979 Australian composer
26 Speed Vogel 1918 American sculptor
27 Julie Speed 1951 American artist
28 Boone Speed 1965 American photographer and rock climber
29 Kuini Speed 1949
30 Stephen Speed 1963 American mayor
31 Speed Lamkin 1928 American writer
32 Speed Martin 1893 American baseball player
33 Speed Webb 1906 Jazz musician
34 Hattie Bishop Speed 1858 American philanthropist
35 John Speed English Roman Catholic layman and martyr
36 James Stephens Speed 1811 American politician
37 F. Maurice Speed 1911
38 John James Speed 1803 American pioneer of telegraphy
39 Fred Speed 1909 English footballer
40 Speed Kelly 1884 Major League Baseball player
41 Horace Speed 1852 American lawyer
42 Speed Gardner 1895 American racing driver
43 Speed Walker 1898 American baseball player
44 Ray Speed 1914 New Zealand association footballer
45 Greg Speed American athlete
46 Jeffery John Mumford Speed 1936 British political activist
47 William Speed English politician
48 Speed Moynes 1892 Canadian ice hockey player
49 Thomas Speed Chief Cashier of the Bank of England
50 Andrew Speed 1899 Scottish cricketer
51 Edwin Speed 1870
52 Stewart Speed 1942
53 Speed Queen Fictional character in DC Comics